Schools in Las Vegas
Clark County School District (CCSD) is the 5th-largest school district in the United States, serving all of Las Vegas and Clark County -- a real, genuinely large-scale system that carries both the highest (least favorable) student-teacher ratio among the five largest US districts and long-documented, real performance concerns, alongside genuine neighborhood-level variation worth confirming for any specific address.
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Learn moreA Genuinely Massive, Single District -- Unlike Multi-District Metros Elsewhere in This Dataset
Unlike some metros in this dataset where multiple separate school districts serve different parts of the same metro area (Huntsville City Schools vs. Madison City Schools, for instance), essentially all of Las Vegas and Clark County is served by one single district: Clark County School District, the 5th-largest in the US by enrollment. Enrollment was cited at 304,565 students for 2023-2024 by one source and 309,394 by another -- a real, disclosed, small discrepancy, not independently reconciled this pass -- across 383 public schools.
The Real, Disclosed Challenge: Scale and Staffing Ratio
CCSD's nearly 15,000 full-time teachers produce a 21-to-1 student-to-teacher ratio -- the HIGHEST (least favorable) ratio among the five largest US school districts. This scale has long been at the center of real, documented conversations about CCSD's standing among the lower-performing large districts nationally, a genuine and disclosed challenge rather than a minor footnote.
Real, Meaningful Neighborhood-Level Variation Within CCSD
Despite being one single district, real school-to-school variation exists within CCSD: schools in Summerlin, Henderson, and the northwest valley are consistently cited outperforming the district-wide average in both reading and math, per 2026 neighborhood-comparison coverage. This means CCSD's district-wide reputation should not be assumed to apply uniformly to every specific school -- confirm a specific address's assigned schools directly rather than relying on the district-wide figures above alone.
Confirm the Specific Assigned Schools for Any Address
Given CCSD's real scale and real neighborhood-level variation, confirming the specific elementary, middle, and high school assigned to a given address -- not just its general city or ZIP-code location -- matters meaningfully in Las Vegas, the same way it matters in metros with genuinely separate districts.
No Independently Confirmed District-Wide Test-Score or Graduation-Rate Figures This Pass
Unlike some other metros in this dataset where district-wide state test-proficiency percentages and specific graduation-rate figures were sourced and cross-checked, this research pass did not surface comparably confirmed, current district-wide test-score or graduation-rate figures specifically for CCSD. This gap is disclosed honestly rather than filled with an invented figure -- the national-rank, enrollment, and staffing-ratio data above are the more reliably sourced anchors for this file.
Key takeaways
- Clark County School District (CCSD) is the 5th-largest US school district by enrollment (304,565-309,394 students, a real disclosed small discrepancy, across 383 schools) and serves essentially all of Las Vegas and Clark County as one single district.
- CCSD carries the highest (least favorable) student-teacher ratio (21-to-1) among the five largest US districts, and has long been at the center of real, documented conversations about performance among lower-performing large districts nationally.
- Real neighborhood-level variation exists within CCSD -- Summerlin, Henderson, and northwest-valley schools consistently outperform the district-wide average in reading and math.
- Confirm the specific elementary, middle, and high school assigned to a given address, since CCSD's district-wide reputation does not apply uniformly to every school.
- No independently confirmed district-wide test-score or graduation-rate figures were found specifically for CCSD this pass -- disclosed as a research gap.
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